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From: "Michal Skrivanek" <mskrivan@redhat.com> To: "Yedidyah Bar David" <didi@redhat.com> Cc: "Greg Sheremeta" <gshereme@redhat.com>, "users" <users@ovirt.org> Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2014 12:16:42 PM Subject: Re: [Users] test day help -- console
On 12 Feb 2014, at 10:09, Yedidyah Bar David <didi@redhat.com> wrote:
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From: "Michal Skrivanek" <mskrivan@redhat.com> To: "Greg Sheremeta" <gshereme@redhat.com> Cc: "users" <users@ovirt.org> Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2014 10:43:18 AM Subject: Re: [Users] test day help -- console
On 11 Feb 2014, at 23:57, Greg Sheremeta <gshereme@redhat.com> wrote:
I'm having a tough time getting a VM console working via VNC. I set a VM to use VNC, and I installed virt-viewer.
1. When I try to open a .vv file with virt-viewer, I get an error "Cannot find guest domain /var/tmp/console.vv"
Old virt-viewer. Where did you get it from?
It's built into current debian, I use it too. Does it support vv files? Didn't know that. The same package also has 'remote-viewer', which works for me with: remote-viewer vnc://host:port
Yep. For some reason only remote-viewer works. No idea why
2. Using a VNC client to connect to the host with the password in the .vv file just immediately disconnects it -- no error message.
For vv files I use the following script:
========================================================================= #!/bin/sh
LOG=$HOME/vv1.log echo ===================== $(date) >> $LOG echo params "$@" >> $LOG
vvfile="$1" host=$(sed -n 's/^host=\([a-zA-Z0-9-]*\).*/\1/p' "$vvfile") port=$(sed -n 's/^port=\([0-9]*\).*/\1/p' "$vvfile") echo "$host" >> $LOG echo "$port" >> $LOG sed -n 's/^password=\(.*\)/\1/p' "$vvfile" | vncviewer -autopass "${host}::${port}" &
sleep 2 /bin/rm -f "$vvfile" =========================================================================
Verified now that it works (I seldom use it because the default is spice which works for me).
Remote-viewer should work the same for VNC. For cclient of choice yes, your script is the one to use
Did you make it in 120s?
That was the main reason for this script :-)
Certificates?
Didn't bother with that.
Alon would be happy to hear that I'm sure:-D I agree, in reality noone bothers.
It's a pretty invasive thing, IMHO. If I see that I need to install a browser certificate for something, first thing I'm going to do is look for the alternative. :/ It's worse than digging out my 2 factor auth token!!
3. noVNC just gives me an empty popup with a gray background.
You didn't import the engine's CA, did you?
Any ideas?
The Console Downloads page has all the info to get it work, did you check it out? (linked from main landing page, display options, user portal...so you shouldn't moss it;)
You refer to 'Console Client Resources', which links to [1]? I had to do some manual work to get spice-xpi working on Debian as it's not packaged for it (and iirc neither are some of the dependencies).
Yes. If you have some handy tips for Debian please feel free to update the page
[1] http://www.ovirt.org/Console_Client_Resources -- Didi